As Futurepast Vice President, Mr. Corker has helped develop and conduct professional training and leadership development seminars for Russian and Ukrainian managers. His work in Kyiv provided a planning framework for managers of Ukrainian national parks and nature preserves to develop alternative sources of revenue.

Mr. Corker has managed award-winning and effective public relations and marketing efforts for businesses and nonprofits for the past thirty years. He led a consortium of public relations firms that helped site and build a controversial waste-to-energy plant in Spokane, WA. Prior to forming his own advertising, public relations, and management consulting business in 1978, he was officer and director of the Eisenhower People-to-People Program, Marketing Director of Transamerica Airlines, and President of National Academic Services, Inc.

Mr. Corker is adjunct professor of marketing and public relations at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. He has also taught courses at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and at Whitworth College in Spokane, WA. Mr. Corker graduated from Stanford University with a BA in political science. At Stanford he was a Soviet Union/Russian Studies Scholar, studying under Alexander Kerensky, who briefly headed the Russian Government in 1917.

Mr. Corker served as a member of the Spokane, Washington, City Council from 1996 to 2004. He was elected to a new four-year term to that body on 6 November 2007.